DELL Latitude D505

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Installing MEPIS on a Dell latitude D505

I recommend using MEPIS 3.4 or greater for the best hardware compatability. None of the 3.3 versions worked with the built-in ipw2100 wireless card, though you can use NDISwrapper.

I have not tested the built-in modem with MEPIS. lspci identified it with no problems, but running kudzu -p I do not see a driver listed for it. I could never get it working under SM2004, which is the last time I tried doing so.

If the lid gets closed or the lid button gets pushed, the video is gone and there's no way to get the screen to restart without rebooting. With SimplyMEPIS 2004, restarting X (ctrl-alt-bkspace) would get the monitor back. With SimplyMEPIS 3.3 and 3.4, it's just gone and you need to reboot. Haven't found a fix for this.

You can get decent video accelleration using the i810 driver. If you aren't getting it by default, do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and tell it do use the i810 driver.